Yea BD was a big fail maybe Win 8 will fix it? Has anyone done benching with win 8 dev preview yet? I'm sure something much better will be out by the time win 8 releases anyways maybe phenom IIIs or an eight core phenom II or even better a properly working BD generation.

Once again... if they'd start marketing them with a little bit of truth in advertising they'd get better clock for clock comparison benchmarks.... if they applied the 2/3 core performance realistically and (correctly) called their so called 8 core chips a 5 1/2 core they'd stack up pretty well on comparison benchmarks... of course, then they'd have to price them accordingly.....